The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
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Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
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| Birth: | 29th November, 1939 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Economist, Investor |
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George Franklin Gilder was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American investor, author, economist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 international bestseller Wealth and Poverty advanced a practical and moral case for supply-side economics and capitalism during the early months of the Reagan Administration and made him President Reagan's most quoted living author. In 2013 he published Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It is Revolutionizing Our World, which reformulated economics in terms of the information theory of Alan Turing and Claude Shannon. He educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, graduating in 1962. He has written other books include: The Israel Test, The Silicon Eye, Telecosm, Life After Television, Microcosm, Men and Marriage, and Visible Man.
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